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Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree Schools in California

2023 Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$8,608 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$43,080 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree School for You

With 764 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general family and consumer sciences is the #105 most popular major in California.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Master's Degree Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for consumer science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in General Family & Consumer Sciences

#1

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA

Our 2023 rankings named San Francisco State University the best value school in California for general family and consumer sciences students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of San Francisco, SFSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SFSU are $8,738 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Northridge. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in California list. Located in the city of Northridge, CSUN is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at CSUN are $8,477 per year.

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Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value General Family & Consumer Sciences Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 15

One of 7 majors within the area of study, general family and consumer sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Human Development & Family Studies 42,112
Food, Nutrition & Related Services 4,858
Textile & Apparel Studies 3,313
Family & Consumer Economics 1,454
Human Sciences Business Services 704

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to National Cancer Institute.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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